Scranton (NJT station)
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Lackawanna Avenue Scranton, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°24′37″N 75°40′20″W / 41.4103°N 75.6721°WCoordinates: 41°24′37″N 75°40′20″W / 41.4103°N 75.6721°W | ||||||||||
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Scranton is the proposed terminus for New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit) passenger rail service from New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey, via the Lackawanna Cut-Off to Scranton, Pennsylvania.[1][2] Currently, NJ Transit provides rail service to Port Morris, New Jersey via the Lake Hopatcong station. The proposal is to extend this service to Andover, New Jersey in Phase I; to Blairstown, New Jersey or Analomink, Pennsylvania in Phase II; and to Scranton in Phase III. Depending on funding, these phases might be consecutive or concurrent.
The Scranton terminus will be a regional station[3] near Steamtown. A new station would be built on Lackawanna Avenue along the northernmost track east of Bridge 60 (the railroad bridge over the Lackawanna River) and the Cliff Street underpass.[4] For parking, the station will use about 30 spots in Steamtown's existing lot.
From 1908 through 1970, passenger service to Scranton used the Lackawanna Railroad's large station. Now a Radisson hotel, the building also housed the railroad's regional headquarters.[5]
References
- ↑ "Lackawanna Cutoff". New Jersey Transit. October 2009. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
- ↑ "NJ-ARP Annual Report 2008-2009" (pdf). November 19, 2009. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
- ↑ "Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority: About Us". Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Rail Authority. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
- ↑ NEW JERSEY – PENNSYLVANIA LACKAWANNA CUT-OFF PASSENGER RAIL SERVICE RESTORATION PROJECT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration and NEW JERSEY TRANSIT in Cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, June 2008.
- ↑ "National Register of Historical Places - PENNSYLVANIA (PA), Lackawanna County". Retrieved 2011-01-02.